Em busca da “terra prometida”: cotidiano e memória de trabalhadores rurais do projeto Jatapu (1970-2014)

Abstract

This work is a reflection on the social and historical meanings of the displacement of rural landless workers from other regions of the country and the Amazon itself to the margins of Northern Perimeter highway as from the early 1970s, when the implementation of programs road building and colonization in the region. Thus, by exploiting road network built during the military governments, whose backbone was the Trans, followed by other major road axes as the Cuiabá-Santarém, BR-174 and Perimeter North – spatial area of research – the displacement of such subject was part of a much broader movement, whose purpose, according to the official discourse, was to occupy spaces considered "empty" on Amazon. However, during the four decades of the presence of these individuals in that space, see individual and collective strategies being adopted to overcome adversity, conflict and daily confrontations. For this purpose, it was necessary to engage with documentary sources, bibliographic sources, photos, and news sources, especially with the memory and oral sources, particularly from the reflections of Alessandro Portelli, who understands the oral history as a field of possibilities and memory as an active process of creating meaning.